Colin Richard Keppel

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Admiral Sir Colin Richard Keppel GCVO, KCIE, CB, DSO (3 December 1862 – 6 July 1947) was a British sailor and Extra Equerry to four kings.

The son of Admiral Sir Henry Keppel and Jane Elizabeth West, and grandson of the 4th Earl of Albemarle served in the Royal Navy reaching the rank of Admiral. Keppel fought in The Mahdist War and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order. He was further invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1900.

Having been Extra Equerry to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Keppel was Aide-de-Camp to King Edward VII from 1907 to 190 and Extra Equerry from 1909 to 1910. From 1910 to 1912 and from 1915 to 1936, he was Extra Equerry to King George V, in 1936 to King Edward VIII and in 1937 to King George VI. Between 1913 and 1915. Keppel was Equerry-in-Ordinary, and between 1915 and 1935 Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons.

On 6 June 1889, he married Mary Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell, daughter of Major-General Richard Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell. They had two daughters.